Fox & Friends Hosts Call RNC Speakers To ‘Tone It Down’ As Trump Pivots Speech To Push For ‘Unity’

Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones called on speakers at the Republican National Convention, which starts Monday, to “tone down” the rhetoric despite the “righteous anger” they may feel after the weekend’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

The team made the call out as they reflected on reports that Trump has rewritten his convention speech entirely, pivoting from a “tough speech” to a call for unity in the wake of the attack. The Trump campaign has reportedly raised concerns about the potentially inflammatory speeches of other speakers at the event.

Host Steve Doocy began: “[Senator] Lindsey Graham said, essentially after the assassination attempt, that the former president now says he has got – these are Lindsey’s words – has ‘a new lease on life.’ That’s why he tore up the speech he was going to give. The former president said the speech was a ‘humdinger’ — it was going to be a tough speech.”

“A humdinger,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt repeated.

Doocy continued: “He tore it up. Because now, what he is pushing is unity. And even Joe Biden yesterday was talking about unity. These two guys apparently are on the same page. The big question is, where do we go from here?”

Kilmeade said: “The Trump campaign said they are raising concerns about the speeches, Lawrence. And they are going to be delivered at the convention. They are worried about him being overly aggressive in the shadow of the assassination attempt.”

Addressing RNC speakers, he added: “So, I would say, everybody, if you are going to give a speech today, tone it down a little. You take the direction of the Trump campaign. Tone it down.

Jones agreed and said: “I think it’s incumbent on all of us to realize the moment. If you’re a part of the MAGA movement or have been following what has been happening for a while, and the tone and the tenor, and you see that there is an attempted assassination on the leader of your party, of course you are angry and upset. But I think we all have a responsibility to the people that we serve and provide information to, to just be more humble. Tone it down just a little bit.”

He added: “You can have righteous anger. But, at the end of the day, you don’t want to inspire someone to do something that can cause harm to someone else.”

Doocy concluded: “So the RNC that, which starts today in Milwaukee, looks like a much different affair than it would have been just a week ago.”

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